November 9, 1871
A railway station in the village of Skollenborg in southeastern Norway was opened. At the time, the present-day Kingdom of Norway was part of the United Kingdoms of Sweden and Norway. Skollenborg station had been designed by architect Georg Andreas Bull (1829-1917). The station was built as part of the Randsfjorden Line, a railway in that section of Norway.
A technological milestone for Skollenborg Station took place in 1929, when a transformer substation built three years earlier was commissioned into service. This transformer substation which was designed by architect Gudmund Hoel (1877-1956), has been used to convert electrical energy into a voltage and frequency better suited for powering electric trains traveling through the region. The transformer substation at Skollenborg Station played a pivotal role in the early electrification of railways in Norway.
Skollenborg Station remains in use today as a link in the Sørlandet Line, a railway connecting the municipality of Drammen in Bukerud county and the municipality of Stavanger in Rogaland county. (The accompanying photo of Skollenborg Station was taken in 2006.)
Photo Credit: Trond Strandsberg (licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en)
For more information on Skollenborg Station, please check out https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skollenborg_Station
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